Targetting these is genuinely a viable wartime strategy as Russia projects it’s influence heavy through propaganda and other digital initiatives in other nations.
Yeah, especially this close to elections…
to several countries elections.
Based Ukraine, boss move
Well that’s weird. The community which removes all memes about Palestine leaves up political posts about Russia.
Tells you a lot about .world
You got banned for antisemitism by your mods and Hexbear genuinely hates you.
.worlders just can’t stop making stuff up. Congrats on catching a .ml ban though since besides rule 2 .world also doesn’t enforce rule 1
Glad we have functional mods on .ml.
You’re not a functional mod, and you’re using the genocide in Palestine to encourage nihilism and bothsideism. You’re just a closet Trump supporter who doesn’t even care to debate pro-democracy people, and just bans them and call them ‘Zionist’ as ban reason. Lol.
I’m sorry I thought you genuinely despised the IDF and were for the betterment of Palestian people, but I was wrong.
How does it feel to not be able to Blue MAGA in .ml because we have functional moderation?
I doubt you want to have a discussion in good faith after calling someone who has been to more free palestine rallies than you a “Zionist”, based on 2 paragraphs of text and a complete lack of impulse control.
But if you do want to hear why I think people need to vote even though there aren’t that many good options, say the word and we’ll have a debate somewhere neither of us have mod powers.
You start your genocide defense with “this is why .ml isn’t taken seriously by other instances” but tell me more about good faith.
Yes, that is why. But I don’t / I refuse to believe that. My point was to illustrate you enforce the stigma around your instance. I’ve seen good people on .ml - I thought you were one of them, that’s why I’m sadly reminded of my naivity. Good people who never wore their instance name as a badge of honour.
I’m saying: going with the classical “BuT BiDEn” defence is so classic Trump supporter. It’s so triggering to you you insta perma banned me.
Are you a Trump supporter? Why are you trying to get people to not vote in the most consequential (again) election cycle in American history?
Or is your opinion that, because AIPAC has such a tight grip on both parties, America should just be exterminated?
But most importantly: why are you so triggered by that? You run several committees with thousands of subscribers, this particular one doesn’t have a sidebar or rules, and you just permanently ban people as a knee jerk response whenever you don’t like, or in this case, don’t understand an argument?
Just write in your sidebar you don’t want anyone else to disagree with you. Even better: set your community to Only mods can post.
You can call me a Zionist if that makes you feel better, even though I am probably more anti Zionist than you are, but I am not defending the genocide in any form. I’ve participated and organised rallies, you absolutely do not know me. And since you knee jerk banned me, you clearly don’t want to know me either, so one wonders why get so triggered when people say pro democracy things around you.
I think you probably just say people are Zionists, because you are so anti Zionist you simply want to exterminate Israel and if possible all jews, but you don’t want to say that because that would be bad for business. Which is why you need to grow a spine. Stand up for what you believe in. Debate people openly if you’re so convinced of your beliefs, instead of banning them and cowardly hiding behind your mod power.
And possibly, very likely, you might have to spend a few more years travelling, maturing and understanding the world around you by interacting with other humans.
Or maybe just the people running the community.
Don’t worry, Trump will get the Russians back online soon.
A New Hope…
Ooh my cousin, GoldAxolotl
Wait, what? Twitter still exist???
I’m not sure if this is a “It’s called X guys” comment or a “That pile of dogshit is still online?” comment. And my upvote/downvote depends on that
Par que no los dos?
Par que
It’s No 2. In every context.
I assume it’s the second option
Is that also why lemmy seems so peaceful today?
Wonder if it had a measurable effect on .ml traffic…
Yes everyone having a different political opinion is a bot. If you ask me, that is not a civil comment. You’re maligning and dehumanizing anyone disagreeing with you.
You act like bots, you’re going to get called bots.
You act like a botist, you’re gonna be called a botist.
Human rights for bots now!
I’m waiting for someone to say hexbear is down or something. (My instance is defederated from them and grad, so I wouldn’t know).
Lets see if we can bait some of the .ml heavyweights out. I’ll start:
The PRC is a hypercapitalist colonial/imperialist superpower masquerading as communism.
There. Start the timer.
both .ml and hexbear have had zero downtime for october so far
Darn… Maybe the next datacenter will do it.
the server is in france so it would probably be a major incident if big Z attacked that
People downvoting the mention of France is perfectly valid
That says nothing about where the users are located
i’m in the us and have actually met other .ml users in person 😂
the xenophobic paranoia about us will never stop being hilarious tho
So you’re admitting you use ‘bot’ as a method of dehumanization instead of literally describing a process on a server.
e: and then later you think you can get away with incredulity at being called racist?
Awful curious for someone who self censored, lmao.
Time: Approx. 7 hours…
And where did I self-censor?
Are you timing your diarrhea cramps or something?
You’re choosing to censor yourself from the opinions of leftists.
“the opinions of leftists”
I get plenty of those, as I am one and interact among the rational segment of leftism. What I don’t waste my time on is fake-leftist shill accounts peddling disinformation on behalf of the imperial fascist financial oligarchy that is the Russian Federation.
So nice try trying to monopolize leftism, but it’s not working. Go peddle your caricature elsewhere.
Good luck with that 👍
Give me one single example from history when your strain of “rational leftism” has ever accomplished anything.
But China isn’t a superpower
Maybe if your sources are all 10+ years old, that might seem like a justifiable position
nah dude. Laser eyes is a superpower. China is a place.
I was about to say “you’ve never heard ‘superpower’ used in a geopolitical context?” and then I noticed your username and suddenly the silent “/s” came through.
Carry on, good sir!
we know r/conservative, and r/conspiracy traffic went down.
Source?
Nobody tell lemmy.ml
Tell them? They are the ones that just got bombed. They pretty much knew before just about anyone else.
Also mysteriously gone, hellooo .ml are you there…?
Yes? Wtf are you libs talking about, lmao.
Idk lmao…
I bet you don’t know what you’re talking about a lot, hey?
I’m right here, baby girl
Gross use of sexist terms from the “socialists”
half of them are gone…
Who?
We’re halfway there then.
You can always just go back to reddit and never have to worry about talking to another leftist again.
So you moved from reddit to a leftist created space, find it too leftist, and want to force out the original inhabitants of the space?
Libs gonna colonize, lol
It’s really funny seeing you guys yelling at ghosts.
It’s called laughing, and the ghosts are angry.
yall love making shit up
Watch out .ml aren’t known to have humour! (Or being historically accurate, but that’s another story).
Ah, the less intelligent half that is left has arrived 😜
Now if they can just work on the other half
We have data centers at home.
there should be a weekly holiday where everyone agrees not to look at the local datacenters (wherever they are) for the entire day and if the datacenter is mysteriously gone the day after the holiday it’s considered good luck.
Sadly.
Source?
Lemmy comment threads.
You don’t actually believe that, if you thought any instance had a lot of unlabeled bots, you’d just report them.
lol of course I don’t think it’s true, thats my point.
October 11th, 5:08 AM (GMT+2) As a result of the UAV attack, the infrastructure of Yandex’s data center in Vladimir was damaged. The data center’s operation has been completely suspended. There are no casualties; the relevant services are already on site and dealing with the consequences.
This is about Yandex’s bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.
Is there also a source for twitter traffic decrease?
truss me bro
Found one: https://piefed.nl/post/213693
You linked to a fedi discussion of a news article. Saving everyone time, the evidence presented is:
Take Richard Tice for example. Below are three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October. At the time of writing, none of the posts had hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views.
{…}
Before the Ukrainian strikes on the Russia data centres, Tice’s posts got considerably more engagement, consistently hitting triple figures for comments and reposts, whilst racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
None of us would have noticed because none of us use Xitter.
Search the news for yandex strikes in russia. Bot traffic was 0.4% of previous levels from one article I read.
Yandex is a search engine. Their bots are just web crawlers.
Link by chance?
These should have been targeted every day for the last 10years, good job Ukraine
i guess that’s the plan going forward. also a good advert for self-hosting because a lot of data is going to get lost
It may be a good advert but it certainly isn’t helping the cost of hardware. Just increasing demand as other data centers must scale up to accommodate the change in network traffic.
It has been a tactile absence.
Appreciate you sharing the news. I never go there, so i would have never known. Maybe you could not go there soon yourself OP? No worries if not, its your life afterall.
.ml salty
Ml is salty because they’re genuinely confused on what reality is outside of their basements.
I’ve met snails with more social skills.
I wonder how traffic on “Truth” Social is going right now.
Give Putin a crown for exposing that its nothing but Russian bots
Coincidence?
Maybe!
Probably not, though 🤷🏻
Tjis is my favorite version of this meme.
